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Hands-On Full Stack Web Development with Aurelia

By : Diego Argüelles Rojas, Erikson Murrugarra
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Hands-On Full Stack Web Development with Aurelia

By: Diego Argüelles Rojas, Erikson Murrugarra

Overview of this book

Hands-On Full Stack Web Development with Aurelia begins with a review of basic JavaScript concepts and the structure of an Aurelia application generated with the Aurelia-CLI tool. You will learn how to create interesting and intuitive application using the Aurelia-Materialize plugin, which implements the material design approach. Once you fully configure a FIFA World Cup 2018 app, you'll start creating the initial components through TDD practices and then develop backend services to process and store all the user data. This book lets you explore the NoSQL model and implement it using one of the most popular NoSQL databases, MongoDB, with some exciting libraries to make the experience effortless. You'll also be able to add some advanced behavior to your components, from managing the lifecycle properly to using dynamic binding, field validations, and the custom service layer. You will integrate your application with Google OAuth Service and learn best practices to secure your applications. Furthermore, you'll write UI Testing scripts to create high-quality Aurelia Apps and explore the most used tools to run end-to-end tests. In the concluding chapters, you'll be able to deploy your application to the Cloud and Docker containers. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to create rich applications using best practices and modern approaches.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Learning how DI works


DI is based on the Inversion of control pattern. Let’s explain that.

Imagine that we create a web application without Aurelia. You will have to manually implement something like this:

  1. Load/instantiate a view model
  2. Load/instantiate a view
  3. Bind the view to the view model
  4. Append the view to the DOM
  5. Handle click on a link by user.
  6. Parse the URL hash, determine which view model to load/instantiate, check whether the current view can be deactivated, and more
  7. Rinse and repeat

Again, and many more times.  Without Aurelia, you are implementing the logic that controls the application life cycle instead of your application business logic and features.

Now, let's create one using Aurelia. You won't work on any configuration code at the application level because the framework does that job for you.Instead, you focus on writing the views, view models, behaviors, and routes that embody your application's custom logic and appearance. Aurelia inverts the control, handling the application life...